In certain instances it’s better to have the exact coordinates of a location on the map because some addresses are listed incorrectly whether you using Google Maps or Bing Maps. This is especially true in rural or highly dense city areas where addresses don’t exactly point to their correct locations. Using direct coordinate data however, the...

There’s more than a few PCMech readers that are weather geeks (and some of you even have a PWS broadcasted on the internet). My preferred weather web site of choice is Weather Underground. The best part about that place is that it remains consistent, meaning no wild new changes, no "total redesigns", etc. They have a formula and it works. Part of...

Upon recent acquisition of a Garmin nüvi 270 I found that I had the ability to manually enter in longitude and latitude coordinates for locations. This is a very convenient feature because you can enter in coordinates directly without having to connect the GPS to the computer at all. For those that would ask “Why can’t I just enter in a street...